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From: Giuliano Pochini <pochini@shiny.it>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
Subject: Re: Poor floppy performance in kernel 2.4.10
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 09:50:06 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <XFMail.20011019095006.pochini@shiny.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011018194415.S12055@athlon.random>


> Indeed, only 2.2 trusted the check media change information and left the
> cache valid on top of the floppy across close/open of the blkdev.

Which is not a bad thing IMHO, but it can cause problems with
some broken SCSI implementation where the drive doesn't send
UNIT_ATTENTION after a media change (like my MO drive when I
misconfigured the jumpers, damn :-((( ).


Bye.


  reply	other threads:[~2001-10-19  7:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-10-17  7:36 Poor floppy performance in kernel 2.4.10 Kamil Iskra
2001-10-17 20:45 ` Steve Kieu
2001-10-18 10:11   ` Kamil Iskra
2001-10-18 15:28     ` Andreas Dilger
2001-10-18 15:42       ` Kamil Iskra
2001-10-18 16:17         ` Ville Herva
2001-10-18 16:30           ` Nick LeRoy
2001-10-18 19:57             ` bill davidsen
2001-10-18 20:47               ` Nick LeRoy
2001-10-18 20:05             ` bill davidsen
2001-10-18 20:15               ` Alexander Viro
2001-10-18 16:18       ` Alexander Viro
2001-10-18 17:44         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-10-19  7:50           ` Giuliano Pochini [this message]
2001-10-19 13:46             ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-10-19 15:57             ` Linus Torvalds
2001-10-20  4:20               ` Rob Landley
2001-10-19 16:58 Manfred Spraul
2001-10-21 11:36 Alain Knaff
2001-10-22  9:59 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-10-22 10:06   ` Alexander Viro
2001-10-22 14:07 ` Nick LeRoy
2001-10-22 18:28 ` bill davidsen
2001-10-27 15:00 Alain Knaff
2001-10-27 15:15 ` Alexander Viro
2001-10-27 17:12   ` Alain Knaff
2001-10-27 17:42     ` Alexander Viro
2001-10-27 18:00       ` Alain Knaff
2001-10-27 18:13         ` Alexander Viro
2001-10-27 18:26         ` Alexander Viro
2001-11-06  7:01         ` Richard Gooch
2001-11-06  7:03           ` Alexander Viro
2001-11-06  7:19         ` Richard Gooch
2001-11-06  7:22           ` Alexander Viro
2001-10-27 19:13       ` Alain Knaff
2001-10-27 19:19         ` Alexander Viro
2001-10-27 19:26           ` Alain Knaff
2001-10-28 20:40           ` Alain Knaff
2001-10-28 20:57             ` Peter T. Breuer
2001-10-29  5:38               ` Alain Knaff
2001-10-29  6:07                 ` Alexander Viro
2001-10-29  6:34                   ` Alain Knaff
2001-10-28 21:42             ` Alexander Viro

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